Word: markely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his long years in the cold corridors of the school's single Tudorish building, William Barber has had time to absorb the highly principled and highly pedigreed Christianity that St. Mark's preaches. Under Barber, the preaching will go on, with Barber doing a good bit of it himself at chapel services on Monday nights. The son of a Greek teacher at St. Mark's, Barber has taught Greek himself for seven years. Now, he will teach only one class. But he will go on coaching the hockey team, and every so often he will take...
...tradition, 83-year-old St. Mark's gives the kind of education and discipline that gets its graduates into the best colleges and the best clubs. Though the school's 177 boys now come from 21 states and nearly 20% are now attending on scholarships, Barber hopes to broaden the base even more. Every year, from now on, he will give a five-year scholarship to one boy from a different part of the U.S. "Private schools," says Barber, "justify themselves if, through their scholarships, they make it possible for all types of Americans to attend." Next year...
Chase National Bank's Joseph E. Pogue agreed. The U.S. was lucky, said he, that the oil industry's profits had been so high. Pogue cited 30 oil companies whose total earnings topped the $2 billion mark. 'The same companies had invested an equal amount (71% of which came from earnings) in new refineries and fields, and had licked the oil shortage...
...came in for some sharp criticism, notably from two British writers. After seven years in the U.S., Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer decided that its people were terribly lonely and everlastingly fearful of looking like sissies. He came about as close to the mark as gadabout anthro-pologists-on-grant usually do. More pretentious was leftish Harold Laski's American Democracy, a glib, fat examination of the U.S. with capitalism as its aboriginal villain...
Other books of verse by older writers: Robinson Jeffers' crabbed The Double Axe, which most critics resented for its arrogant, unyielding isolationism; Paterson, Book II, a homey description of small-city life by William Carlos Williams, a New Jersey doctor who versifies between paying patients; Mark Van Doren's pleasant New Poems...